Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...
...neighborhood mongrel dog was blamed for the freak. Dog and mother cat had fought all through her gestation. Mrs. Gannon's neighbors argued that those fights had marked the kittens. Henry Sternberger, who photographed the catdog and named it Nonesuch, thought that cat and dog might have mated. In any case, decided he, this was a freak in which the American Genetic Association should be interested...
...handle German Reparations, the B.I.S. is now in somewhat the same category as the League of Nations—a noble relic. It makes a little money out of various banking operations, including the settlement of international postal balances, serves as a sounding board for collective European banking thought, issues astonishingly good reports, largely written by its Swedish economic adviser, Per Jacobsson. In last week's report Per Jacobsson was disturbed not only by gold but by armaments...
Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...
...Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke was an assistant professor of educational psychology in a midwestern university, Margery thought the goal was in sight. What Luke saw was not a goal but the monster at the end of the labyrinth. Before it was too late he resigned his job, took his wife and son back to the old home town where they belonged...